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Sunday, May 22, 2016

Football’s Quarrels and Feuds, Part Thirteen

In the summer of 1983 FC Koln stars Harald Schuamcher and Gerd
Strack were at odds with Dutch Manager Rinus Michels.

Schumacher
went as far as saying that Michels could not develop nor train young players.

Schumacher
was fined by the Koln Management. The Management’s reasoning was that if they
had fired Michels after Schumacher’s comments, no high profile manager would
have ever come to Koln.

Photo
From: World Soccer, April 2005

(Rinus
Michels)

Photo
From: Fussball Magazin, March April 1982

(Harald Schumacher)

2- Marcel
Desaily and Hristo Stoichkov, 1996

After France’s match vs. Bulgaria during the 1996 Euros (June 18,
1996, France 3-Bulgaria 1), French star Marcel Desailly complained that
throughout the match Bulgarian star Hristo Stoichkov had hurled racial abuse at
him and other players of African descent.

For his part, Stoichkov downplayed the incident and said that it
was ‘normal’ behavior and all is forgotten at the end of the match.

It was that reported in June 2008, that former Chile players
Eduardo Bonvallet and Carlos Caszely were involved in a fist fight after a
verbal argument near a Santiago Ice Cream shop.

Photo
From: Mondial, New Series, Hors Serie 13, 1982

(Carlos
Caszely)

4- Paul
Gascoigne and Glenn Hoddle 1998

England Manager Glenn Hoddle disclosed a few months after the 1998
World Cup that Paul Gascoigne was so angry at the news of him being cut from
the World Cup Finals squad, that he violently reacted and started wrecking and
destroying Hoddle’s room. Others had to come and physically restrain the
volatile Gascoigne.

Photo
From: Goal, Issue 2, November 1995

(Paul
Gascoigne)

Photo
From: World Soccer, October 1998

(Glenn
Hoddle)

5- George
Weah and Paris St. Germain Management, 1995

A few months after his transfer to AC Milan from PSG in 1995,
Liberian star George Weah accused his former club in their handling of the
matter.

According to Weah, PSG Officials purposefully delayed negotiations
in the hopes of raising his transfer cost.

He also stated that once he had told PSG that he wanted to leave,
they started making things difficult for him.

They asked him to reimburse the furniture that the club had loaned
him as well as airfare costs (According to Weah, he had an agreement with PSG
that they would pay for his and Liberian teammates airfare to and from International
matches, so that he could be present for League matches on time).